During a year-long gambling binge at the CaesarsPalace and Rio casinos in 2007, Terrance Watanabe
managed to lose nearly $127 million. The run is believed to be one of the
biggest losing streaks by an individual in Las Vegas history.

…lurking in the shadows of the league, there
are oddsmakers and the handicappers who try to outsmart them, hoarding an
understanding of the game that rivals most NBA front-offices. Haralabos
Voulgaris is among them.

Though it enjoys a steadfast following among
older working-class residents, bingo has been in retreat across the country for
many years, eroded by competing forms of legalized gambling with sweeter riches
or superior odds, as well as by online entertainment options (including
Internet bingo). The recession and smoking bans haven’t helped. (The economy
has bruised the entire gambling industry.)

George Wright, America's most elusive fugitive,
ran for forty years. He ran from the cops after escaping from prison. He ran
from the feds after the most brazen hijacking in history. He ran from the
authorities on three continents, hiding out and blending in wherever he went.
It was a historic run—and now that it's over, he might just pull off the
greatest escape of all

Fred Kovaleski and Yuri Rastvorov were secret
agents, sworn enemies on opposite sides of the Cold War. When they finally came
face to face, a mutual love of tennis spawned the beginning of a beautiful
friendship

Quantum tunnelling had always been thought too
complex to simulate on today's simple quantum computers. Now a new approach to
quantum computing has changed that and opens the door to more complex
simulations